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Inside the creation and demise of the Temple of Together at Burning Man 2024
With Burning Man 2024 concluded, organizers have shared imagery depicting the building, use, and ultimate demise of the events main temple. Designed by Caroline Glitter Kitty Ghosn, the Temple of Together was inspired by Lebanese Khaizaran chairs and the artists own decades-long battle with multi-generational trauma and illness.Image credit: Rand LarsonImage credit: Rand LarsonThe design of the temple seeks to portray the light that emerges when we come together with all parts of ourselves and with the oneness we share with all living things. The leading motif of the temple is the representation of two hands coming together in prayer, symbolizing a common gesture of unity, humility, and respect to almost all spiritual traditions.Image credit: Rand LarsonImage credit: Rand LarsonThe gesture of unity is depicted literally by the two hands creating the temples entrance archway, but also in a more abstract sense through neo-Gothic pointed arches repeated throughout the design, ...